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We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.
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The Trump administration recently dropped its National Security Strategy and, like all things Trump, it’s equal parts nonsense and vitriol. It signals a self-defeating retreat from any sort of global leadership and the regime’s open promotion of white nationalism at home and abroad.
The document is extremely light on the “strategy” part, but is chock full of naked racism and Great Replacement rhetoric. If you fed a low-rent knockoff version of ChatGPT a diet of Trump Truth Social screeds and X posts from Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem, this is what it would spit out.
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It looks nothing like any previous version of the congressionally-required report, including the one from Trump’s first term. And it certainly doesn’t look like anything put out during Biden’s term, when the president vowed to “continue to defend democracy around the world, even as we continue to do the work at home to better live up to the idea of America enshrined in our founding documents.”
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The new strategy document, which is signed by Trump, is intended to be relatively staid and cover international goals and commitments, defense capabilities, and proposed uses of political, economic, and military power to achieve those goals. But when the only goal is brutal domination, and the administration has already shredded all our international obligation, you get … whatever this is.
The administration genuinely seems to believe it can pull back from the world stage yet somehow still tell the rest of the world what to do. And it has a very firm idea of what it wants Europe to do, which is “be as racist and xenophobic as Trump.”
No, really. According to the administration, here are the problems Europe faces:
The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.
Also a problem? “Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European.”
Sorry, was that too subtle? How about this: “Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less.”
Sorry, was that still too subtle? “We want Europe to remain European.”
